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Stoewer was a German
In 1928 the company started to build ''S8'' and ''G14'' models with eight-cylinder engines.
At the beginning of the 1930s Stoewers delivered their highlights: ''G15 Gigant'', ''M12 Marschall'' and ''P20 Repräsentant'', each with eight-cylinder engines, with 60 to 120 hp (45 to 90 kW) and maximum speed. The production of these cars had to be cancelled after 2,500 vehicles being produced due to worldwide economic troubles. In 1931 Stoewer constructed one of the first cars with
Stoewer Museum
* {{Authority control Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1896 Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany History of Szczecin Companies of Prussia Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1945 1896 establishments in Germany 1945 disestablishments in Germany Companies involved in the Holocaust Companies based in Szczecin
Stoewer was a German automobile
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods.
The year 1886 is regarde ...
manufacturer before World War II
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whose headquarters were in Stettin (Now Szczecin, Poland).
History
The first company was founded by the Stoewer brothers, Emil (lived 1873 - 1942) and Bernhard (1875 - 1937) in 1896 for manufacturing sewing machines in Stettin. In 1899, the Stoewer brothers founded the firm ''Gebrüder Stoewer, Fabrik für Motorfahrzeugen'' and started to produce automobiles. Their firstautomobile
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods.
The year 1886 is regarde ...
was the Großer Stoewer Motorwagen, with 6.5 hp (4.8 kW) and maximum speed.
In 1908 Stoewers constructed the ''Stoewer G4''. This model was successful for them at the time - 1070 cars were built. In 1910, Stoewer cars were built under licence by Mathis of Strassburg.
In 1916, the family-owned company was transformed into a limited company under the name of ''Stoewer-Werke AG, vormals Gebrüder Stoewer''.
In the mid-20s a new class of cars was introduced: the ''D-Types'' included ''D3'', ''D9'' and ''D10'' with four-cylinder engines, as well as ''D5'', ''D6'' and ''D12'' with six cylinders.
Something special was the 1921 ''D7'' with a proprietary six-cylinder aero engine with . Of the fifty "D10" made, the only survivor was in Melbourne, Australia in original condition. It was on display at the 2014 MotorClassica. It is now in Germany.
In 1928 the company started to build ''S8'' and ''G14'' models with eight-cylinder engines.
At the beginning of the 1930s Stoewers delivered their highlights: ''G15 Gigant'', ''M12 Marschall'' and ''P20 Repräsentant'', each with eight-cylinder engines, with 60 to 120 hp (45 to 90 kW) and maximum speed. The production of these cars had to be cancelled after 2,500 vehicles being produced due to worldwide economic troubles. In 1931 Stoewer constructed one of the first cars with front-wheel drive
Front-wheel drive (FWD) is a form of engine and transmission layout used in motor vehicles, where the engine drives the front wheels only. Most modern front-wheel drive vehicles feature a transverse engine, rather than the conventional longitu ...
at all, class ''V5'' 25 hp (19 kW), maximum speed. The model named ''Greif Junior'' was built under the licence of Tatra.Odin, L.C. ''World in Motion 1939, The whole of the year's automobile production''. Belvedere Publishing, 2015. ASIN: B00ZLN91ZG. Its successor ''V8 Greif'' was the last car constructed by Mr Stoewer himself; class ''Arkona'' and ''Sedina'' were the last civilian cars produced by the company.
In 1936 the Stoewer factory developed the 'uniform light off-road car' (''le.E.Pkw'', leichter geländegängiger Einheits-PKW) for the German army, a versatile four-wheel drive
Four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, refers to a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously. It may be full-time or on-demand, and is typically linked via a transfer cas ...
car, the Stoewer R200 initially (until 1940) equipped with four-wheel steering
Steering is a system of components, linkages, and other parts that allows a driver to control the direction of the vehicle.
Introduction
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. Due to capacity-limitations, the cars also had to be produced by BMW-Factory Eisenach, as BMW 325, and by Hanomag
Hanomag (Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG, ) was a German producer of steam locomotives, tractors, trucks and military vehicles in Hanover. Hanomag first achieved international fame by delivering numerous steam locomotives to Finland, Romania and ...
in Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
as the Type 20B. Together the three manufacturers made a total of ca. 13,000 units.
Stoewer was one of several German companies that exploited slave labour during WW II and had its own camp for prisoners.Pomorze Zachodnie na przełomie dwu epok, 1944-1946 Kazimierz Golczewski Wydawn. Poznańskie,page 29, 1964
After World War II
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, the Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...
seized the remaining production facilities, dismantled the factory and sent the equipment to the Soviet Union
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. The company subsequently ceased to exist.
Passenger car models
See also
*Einheits-PKW der Wehrmacht
''Einheits-Pkw der Wehrmacht'' – ''literally: "standard passenger motor-car of the Wehrmacht"'' – was the Nazi German plan for a new, multi-purpose fleet of four-wheel drive, off-road capable cars and light trucks, based on just three unifo ...
*GAZ-69
The GAZ-69 is a four-wheel drive off-road vehicle produced by GAZ (ГАЗ, or ''Gorkovsky Avtomobilnyi Zavod'', Gorky Automobile Factory) between 1953 and 1956 and then by UAZ, in 1956–1972, though all of these light truck class vehicles were ...
References
External links
Stoewer Museum
* {{Authority control Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1896 Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany History of Szczecin Companies of Prussia Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1945 1896 establishments in Germany 1945 disestablishments in Germany Companies involved in the Holocaust Companies based in Szczecin